Archives for
November 2013

You might want to watch this video, but don't you have something more pressing to do? The AVByte Brothers, a musical pair known for song-and-dance numbers like "Star Wars Disney Princesses," tackled procrastination last December with "Procrastination...

J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote, "Not all who wander are lost." Today, 6.32 million Americans are living -- and wandering -- abroad, excluding those in the military. Some move for work, others to explore their options and still others for education -- and ...

It's no secret that people choose dumb passwords. But when a large database of passwords gets hacked and exposed, it can still be shocking that users still go with such easy-to-guess passwords. But that's exactly what many Adobe customers did. As it ...

Conan O'Brien's plan to take over LinkedIn is going just as he planned. (Insert evil laugh here.) In September, the comedian realized that one only puzzle piece missing from his social media empire was the networking platform LinkedIn. He set about r...

In the 1890s, the Sears-Roebuck catalog delivered 500 pages of product options right to your mailbox, offering the height of shopping convenience. Today, that "Consumer's Bible" has moved to your web browser via digital storefronts and sites like Ets...

Just in time for the holiday season, Apple has not one but two new iPad devices ready to entice eager buyers. In addition to the fully redesigned iPad Air -- available now -- is an updated iPad mini with Retina. It used to be easy to choose what iPad...

After months of speculation, Facebook last week acknowledged that there was some decrease in the number of "younger teens" using the social network on a daily basis. Now an annual survey of 4,014 young people provides more proof that teens may be loo...

Anyone visiting the Fox News website Tuesday afternoon may have noticed something was off. For a few minutes, the top story on the site had the caption "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee," followed by "STUFF YO," in what initially appeared to be a hacker at...

Symmetry brings aesthetically pleasing balance and proportion into photography. When used correctly, it can create striking images. For this week's round of our Mashable Photo Challenge, we asked you to show us your best photographs using this powerf...

Sweetie spends most of her time perusing the Internet's darkest corners. Many may recognize her as a 10-year-old girl from the Philippines -- but Sweetie isn't real. Researchers from an international child rights activist group created the computer-g...

Apple has published its first transparency report, detailing the number of requests it receives for user and customer's data from governments around the world. The company released its Report on Government Information Request (.PDF) on Tuesday. Just ...

Jimmy Kimmel wants to get all up in your nasal passageways. The comedian once again sent his team onto the streets of Los Angeles to prank unsuspecting victims for his popular "Lie Witness News" segment. This time, the premise involved an iPhone that...

Google has come a long way with their smartphones -- here's proof. The site GadgetLove created a GIF that follows the evolution of Google phones from the Nexus One to Nexus 5. The GIF mostly highlights Google's experimentation with home buttons throu...

In the future world of Google Helpouts, which the search giant officially unveiled yesterday, a teacher on a tablet will improve our yoga poses. We will learn to strum from a remote guitar guru. Photoshop experts will share our screens as we touch up...

I just logged into my password-protected Mac simply by rapping my knuckles twice on the screen of my iPhone. Even better, I did it in less time than it would take to type one key on the keyboard. I achieved this bit of futuristic magic using a new ap...

“Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains in Spacetime” is the name of a scientific paper written by physicists Dr. Ben Tippett and Dr. Dave Tsang. Yes, not only do they study black holes and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but they deliberat...

Director Peter Jackson used Facebook on Tuesday to release singer Ed Sheeran's new song that will play during the closing credits of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -- the upcoming sequel in the three-part film adaptation of the The Hobbit novel....

A new study by information-service company Experian claims that mothers with children under 5 are more active on social media than the general public. These mothers are twice as likely to post comments on social-networking websites than the rest of t...

From an outsider's perspective, fandom is a fickle beast. It’s sometimes hard to see why the Internet would embrace some movies and TV shows while rejecting others. Why has NCIS inspired more fanfiction than all the Law & Order and CSI franchises com...

Picture the scene -- you return home and the temperature rises, the lights go on, and your oven heats itself in preparation for dinner. You didn't have to lift a finger; it happened because your iPhone's GPS told it you had come home. It may be a whi...

When Hurricane Sandy came ashore in October 2012, it made waves in the virtual world as well as the real one. Photographs posted to the picture-sharing website Flickr track Sandy's landfall on Oct. 30, 2012, precisely, according to a new study publis...

Jake Foushee, the 15-year-old voice actor who made a name for himself in mid-2012 with his "Movie Trailer Guy" impression video, is back with 10 amazing impressions that will melt your brain. The clip, from YouTube comedy channel Our Pizza Gang, feat...

Did somebody say free samples? Sumpto, a startup that identifies top social-media influencers at colleges across the country, sends students free gifts from brands in hopes that they will tweet, post and share photos of the free swag on their social-...

You've probably upgraded your gaming system several times since your Nintendo NES. But you'll never forget the nearly asthma-inducing way that you'd blow into the cartridge so you could put those pixelated ducks in their place. YouTube channel VSauce...

Justin Bieber has invested $1.1 million in a new social-media startup called Shots of Me. Not much has been released about the new social network, which is designed specifically for teens, but it will apparently address issues like cyberbullying. The...

Shaun Russell loves music, but he's sick of hearing the same Billboard hits on loop. To remedy the endless stream of mainstream pop hits, he founded Upbeat. The web application is basically a Reddit for music. Listeners pick a genre to tune in to, up...

Since the dawn of the space age, NASA probes have beamed data home to Earth using radio-frequency communication. But that's all set to change soon. The space agency is working hard to develop laser-based space communications systems, which officials ...

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